Question

41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Time Remaining 02:40:18 Read the excerpt from "Lise Marie de Baissac." In Normandy, Baissac pretended to be a refugee from Paris living in the house of a schoolmaster. There, she helped to set up more resistance groups and organize sabotage actions. Again traveling by bicycle, she maintained secret communications between groups and transported supplies. This was extremely dangerous work. Often covering forty miles in a single day, she carried arms and explosives as well as information about targets. Her actions, along with those of her colleagues, often delayed the arrival of German reinforcements to the front lines of battle. Which best describes the central idea of this paragraph? When she lived in Normandy, Baissac assumed a different identity in order to complete important work while she lived there. Baissac’s goal was to get in the way of German troop movement, and she was often successful when she worked with resistance groups. Baissac did significant work as a spy when she lived in Normandy, sometimes traveling by bicycle to complete her tasks. As a spy in Normandy, Baissac performed a variety of important and sometimes dangerous tasks in order to get in the way of German troops. Mark this and return

Answer 1

A. "When she ... lived there."

This line only defines a specific detail about how the special agent survived through a fake name as a spy. No central theme is described through this sentence.

B. "Baissac’s goal ... resistance groups."

This statement provides the agent’s motive and the way she enacted the task provided. However, that does not completely cover everything in the passage.

C. "Baissac did ... her tasks."

Significant work is not specific, and Normandy and traveling by a bicycle are smaller and irrelevant details, not the big picture that should be concluded from this passage.

D. "As a ... German troops."

This is the statement that definitely defines the central idea of the excerpt. When we break this line into sections, we can see that it illustrates that she performed multiple essential tasks when appointed in Normandy. The phrase “sometimes dangerous tasks” describes the critical nature of the job she handled in there. And, also the opposition (German troops) is clearly mentioned in this sentence which helps to convey the idea very clearly.